I 20 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XVIII, 



blue triangle with a white rectangle set up on its point, rep- 

 resents a red hill, with a road going up and down it (1. e., 

 over it). 



The bag as a whole represents a turtle, loose strips of green 

 cloth hanging from the comers being legs. 



The bag shown in Fig. 2 of Plate xxn is much browned by- 

 age. The figure in 

 the middle of the 

 bag was said to repre- 

 sent a pattern painted 

 on buffalo-robes and 

 called biinaWt. This 

 robe-design, like all 

 other designs in Ar- 

 apaho art, is not al- 

 together fixed and 

 constant. One' form 

 of it occurs on a 

 bufEalo-calf blanket 

 which has been de- 

 scribed elsewhere.' 

 Other forms of it 

 are more convention- 

 alized. The biinabl't 

 design is considered 

 sacred among the 

 Arapaho. It is said 

 to have come from 

 the Apaches. 



The bag shown in 

 Fig. 3, Plate xxii, has 

 an unusually vari-colored appearance, because the four paints 

 upon it are distributed in small areas. All the isosceles tri- 

 angles represent tents. The smallest and lowest of the triangles 

 enclosed in each are considered as doors. The three-pronged 

 black figures represent the poles projecting above the tent. 

 The diamond in the middle of the whole design, having at- 



* Bulletin of American Museum of ^^atural History, ipoo, p. 85. 



Fig- 35 (1J83). Design on Rawhide Bag. Width 

 of bag, 36 cm. 



